Church Needlework: A manual of practical instruction

by Hinda M. Hands

* The Art Workers’ Quarterly.

* Burlington.

* Home Art Work.

* Studio.

Transactions of St. Paul’s Ecclesiological Society. Vols. I. and II. especially.

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INDEX

• Albe, an ancient, [86]
• apparels of, [86]
• how to make, 8[6]
• insertion on old, [87]
• modern, [87-88]
• origin of, [85]
• symbolism of, [53]
• Almsbags, [67]
• Altar, keynote of decoration, [39-40]
• linen required for, [79]
• Altar-cloth band, [79-80]
• fair linen, [79]
• Altar-frontal, [39]
• early English, [40]
• to make up, [40-47]
• Amice, apparel of, [88]
• of St. Thomas of Canterbury, [88]
• origin of, [88]
• symbolism of, [53]
• Apparels, [57]
• of albe, [86]
• of amice, [88]
• of dalmatic, [24], [57]
• Appliqué, [21]
• examples of, [22-24]
• method of cutting, [26]
• to prepare, [25]
• uses of, [25]
• Apron necessary, [16]
• Back-stitching, [76]
• Banners, [65]
• appliqué suitable for, [25]
• design for, [64]
• Basket-stitch, [12]
• Book-covers, [67]
• Book-markers, [68]
• Books, care of, [84]
• Brocade, [3]
• Burse, [58], [62]
• to make, [58], [61]
• Buttonhole-filling, [75]
• Buttonhole-stitch, [74]
• Canvas-stitch, [77]
• Chain-stitch, [27]
• Chalice-veil (linen), [83]
• (silk), [58]
• design for, [83]
• specimen of, [63]
• Chasuble, early English examples, [55]
• from Harleian MSS., [55]
• how to make, [56]
• of St. Ignatius of Loyola, [54]
• of St. Thomas of Canterbury, [58]
• origin of, [55]
• ornament of, ‘flower,’ [56], [59]
• symbolism of, [53]
• Cherub, early English, [45]
• Cingulum or girdle, [53], [85]
• Clavi, [57]
• Cloth, linen and woollen, [3]
• of gold, [3], [9]
• Colours, [2]
• isolation of, [21]
• liturgical, [39]
• modification of, [10]
• washing, [16]
• Cope, measurements of, &c., [49]
• the, [49]
• to make up, [50]
• Coptic embroidery, [28]
• Corporals, case or burse, [58-62]
• pair of, [83]
• Couching (gold), [9]
• (silk), [15]
• compared with laid-work, [15], [19]
• Counter-change, [26]
• Credence cloth, [85]
• Crewel-stitch, [20]
• Cross-stitch, [76-77]
• like Lacis, [77]
• Curtains, principles to be observed in hanging, [40]
• Cut-linen, [82]
• Dalmatic, [57]
• apparels of, [24], [57]
• Clavi, [57]
• diagram of, [61]
• Damask, [3]
• Darning, [20], [21]
• on drawn-thread, [79], [82]
• Decoration, futile, [2]
• of ancient copes, usual arrangement of, [50]
• some principles of, [2]
• Design, colour-scheme in, [2]
• Designers for ecclesiastical art, [2]
• Designs, to transfer, [6-7]
• D’or nué, [34], [36]
• Drawing necessary for figure-work, [29]
• Emblems, [96]
• Embroidery, definition of, [1]
• English, [1]
• in gold, [9-13]
• in linen, [72-77]
• in silks, [15]
• paste, [25]
• ‘Eye’ of a curve, [74]
• ‘Fair-linen Cloth,’ [79]
• Fanon or maniple, [53]
• Feather-stitch, [75]
• Figure-embroidery, [28-37]
• Florentine, [35]
• from frontal of St. Thomas (à Becket) of Canterbury, Salisbury, [33]
• from Syon cope, [31]
• imitation of, [91]
• three methods of, [34]
• Filling, buttonhole, [75]
• chain-stitch, [27]
• stitches suitable for, [74-76]
• Floss-silk, embroidery in, [15-20]
• how to use, [16]
• Flower, ornament called the, [59]
• Flowers, early English conventional, [42-44]
• Frames, altar-frontals stretched on, [47]
• embroidery, [4-6]
• how to mount for embroidery, [6]
• making up, [41]
• position of worker at, [5]
• French knots, [27]
• Fringe, importance of, [46]
• washing of, [82]
• Frontal, altar-, [39]
• early English, [40]
• how to make up, [40-47]
• keynote as to colour, &c., [39]
• size, [40]
• Garments in embroidery, treatment of, [29], [30], [32], [91]
• liturgical, [53]
• Girdle of silk at Sarum, [85]
• the, use and symbolism of, [53]
• Gold, cloth of, [3], [9]
• d’or nué, [34], [36]
• embroidery, [9-13]
• raised work, [12]
• stitches useful for, [10], [11]
• thread, different kinds of, [3-4]
• Hands, special care of the, [16]
• Hangings, various, [40]
• Herring-bone-stitch, [75]
• close, [76]
• Swiss, [76]
• Herse-cloth or pall, [66], [67], [71]
• colour of, [67]
• History of embroidery, [1]
• Houseling-cloth, [84]
• Imitations condemned, [2], [91]
• Inlay, [26]
• Insertion, [86], [87]
• Kneelers, [68]
• Lace suitable for linen, [82]
• Lacis, [77]
• Laid-work, [15-19]
• compared with couching, [15], [19]
• Lavabo towels, [84]
• Light, arrangement of, [5]
• Linen, altar, [79]
• coloured, [3]
• coloured embroidery on white, [80]
• corporal, [83]
• ‘cut,’ [82]
• drawn-thread, [79-82]
• embroidery, principal stitches, [73-77]
• fringe, to wash, [82]
• vestments, [85]
• Linen-work, materials for, [73]
• sampler, [72]
• Lines, ‘Sympathetic,’ [76]
• Long- and short-stitch, [17]
• Maniple, origin and symbolism of, [53]
• shape and size of, [53-55]
• the, [53]
• Materials for backgrounds, [3]
• for embroidery, [3-5]
• for linen-work, [73]
• Mitre, [51-52]
• of St. Thomas of Canterbury, [51]
• Needles, [4]
• to improve, [4]
• ‘Opus Anglicanum,’ [32]
• Outline, [21]
• principle of, [21]
• secondary, [23]
• Padding in gold-work, [12]
• in linen-work, [74]
• Pall or herse-cloth, [66], [67]
• linen, [83-84]
• Parchment, use of, [12], [52]
• Paste, embroidery, to make, [25]
• Plate, [13]
• Plumage-stitch, [17]
• Principles, a few—
• of colour, [21]
• of decoration, [2]
• of embroidery as art, [1]
• of proportion, [47], [66]
• Pulpit-hanging, [70]
• Purificators, [84]
• Radiation, principle of, [17]
• Relief, high, [12], [74]
• exaggerated, [30]
• Rochet, [89]
• Saint Ignatius of Loyola, [54]
• Thomas of Canterbury’s amice, [88]
• apparel, [88]
• chasuble, [58]
• mitre, [51]
• Sampler for gold-work, [8]
• for linen-work, [72]
• for silk-work, [14]
• Shades of floss-silk, [2-15]
• in old work, [36]
• Shading, [15], [16]
• Silk and satin, [3]
• embroidery, [15]
• embroidery compared with linen, [74]
• Silks, embroidery, [4]
• Soap, carbolic, &c., to avoid, [16]
• Stitches—Back-stitch, [76]
• basket-stitch, [12]
• buttonhole, [74]
• canvas or cushion, [77]
• chain, [27]
• couching, [9], [10], [11], [15], [61]
• cross, [76]
• drawn-thread, [81]
• feather, [75]
• French knots, [27]
• herring-bone, [75]
• laid-stitch, [15-19]
• nué (d’or), [34], [36]
• open-worked cross-stitch, [77]
• satin, [16], [17], [18]
• linen, [74]
• short, [17], [34]
• slanting, [20]
• split-stitch, [18], [29], [30], [32], [36]
• Stole, origin and symbolism of the, [53]
• shape and design, [55]
• size of the, [53]
• Stuffing-cotton, [12]
• Sudaries, [84]
• Super-frontal or frontlet, [46]
• Surplice, ancient, [89]
• diagram, [90]
• Dr. Rock’s pattern, [90]
• how to make, [89]
• modern, [89]
• Symbols, [96]
• ‘Sympathetic lines,’ [76]
• Syon cope, arrangement of design, [32]
• background of, [37]
• colours of, [32]
• figure from the, [31]
• gold-work of, [36]
• method of work, [36]
• Toga, Roman, [49]
• Towels, Lavabo, [84]
• Trabea, [49]
• Tunicle, [57]
• Veil, chalice (silk), [58], [63]
• (linen), [83]
• humeral, [84]
• offertory, [84]
• Velvet, [3]
• Vestments, Eucharistic, [53]
• colours of, [39], [53]
• symbolism of, [53]
• linen, [85-90]
• of Walter de Cantelupe, fragments of, [30]
• ‘white shining,’ [85]
• White linen, decoration of, [73], [74]
• Worcester, bishop’s tomb at, [56]
• fragment of vestments, [30]